Asus WL-167g

[kozimodo]

I just bought an Asus WL-167g for an old iMac G3 because I had read that it worked with Ubuntu but this does not appear to be the case for PPC. I have xubuntu 8.04.1 installed but after plugging the usb dongle in and booting up, the rt73usb driver was not automatically loaded. I modprobed it but there were still no wireless extensions. I also tried adding it to /etc/modules and doing an update-initramfs. Now when I boot, the module is loaded but still no wireless extensions. Any ideas how to get the thing working? Suggestions for other USB wireless cards that work with PPC?

From lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0b05:1723 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.

[kozimodo]

Solved. I'm guessing that the problem was that the dongle was not getting enough power plugged into the keyboard. Works fine plugged directly into the iMac.